Thursday, March 31, 2011

Pysanky

My very first attempt at Pysanky using one color.My dear friend Julia and her lovely daughters gave me the Pysanky kit last yearas a gift and I hadn't tried it yet. Using the the kystka to draw is tricky!But i will continue to practice and make a few more before Easter.

42 Lovely Comments:

I am thinking that if you have ZERO plans of eating the egg, you could do it using making fluid instad of the wax. I did it the traditional Ukranian way many times before, but if you don't have a kit, I am better the fluid and some food colouring dyes would work just as well!

hello from Ukraine loli was so surprised to see pysanky here! my mom and my grandma use onions peel to die eggs and decorate it with leaves) you put a leaf on egg, fix it and then put it into onion peel. eggs become deep orange and redish with white leaves silhouettes :)xatp

Ít's a beautiful egg! I'm curious to see more of them. I know that the kystka is difficult to use. I did some batik in the 70th's and struggled with that thing a long time. Wish you lots of luck with it. Hugzz...Peebee

Pisanki:)))) I,m going to make some too, but to make it easier I though of using liquid gum instead of wax. But if I wanted to use wax maybe a tjanting ( it`s a tool used to put wax on batik ) woukd be helpfull? Ps. pisanki are very popular not only in Ukraine, but in all western Europe, here in Poland too. And also KRASZANKI ( I thing you wolud write it this way: KRASHANKY). They are in one colour without decoration and what`s important they are painted in a brew made only from natural painting products like oak`s or alder tree`s bark, walnuts` nutshells, beetroots etc.Greetings from Poland:)

How nice to see it. We still do it a lot in Poland. I think we use more flower patterns than geometric. When I was a child we did not have any kit so we did it with wax crayon and candle. I remember it was fun.Dorota

The wax resist looks gorgeous with the brown of the egg peeking through and being brought out by the brown in the little nest. Beautiful. Between you and Margie, I am in heaven. I just completed a project inspired by Margie (come see), now I just might have to give this wax resist method a try. Carolina

Just for more inspiration:http://www.zgstl.kei.pl/dyscypliny/plastyka.htmThe site is in Polish, but the pictures say enough.The ones from Lowicz (with characteristic cock) are decorated with paper cutworks glued to the eggs.

How awesome! You're using the kit. My mom and I had such a fun time taking our egg decorating class. It included her setting a paper towel on fire (accidentally) in the middle of class and me having to stomp it out (and I directed her to please NOT drop it on the table littered with other paper towels!). Who said decorating eggs was boring?! ~Mara

I´m doing something similar with my Grandma from Hungary each year in eastertime. But we use the paring of red onions. The eggs become a red-brown color. We use nylon socks to put leafs on the eggs or paint with beewax on them. I´ve never heard of a kistka ( we painted with a needle or a toothpick-very difficult!), but now i´m going to buy one on ebay :) Thanks! Your blog is the most beautiful i´ve ever seen!

There are many different ones with beautiful decorations and techniques and we call them "pirhi" and on some areas "pisanice".

Maybe it would interest you one of our present time artist, that developed a special technique:He makes little holes into the egg-shells and they are now called "Vrhniški pirhi".What is amazing about that, that he makes about 3.000 holes per egg!(and his record is 17.000, could you believe! - it took him 2 months to finished it)

Here are 2 links for you(the video is in Slovene, but the art-eggs speak for themselves):